One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
Quote by W. H. Auden
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One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
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W. H. Auden Quotes
- False enchantment can last a lifetime.
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.
- Accurate scholarship can unearth the whole offence from luther untill noe that has driven a culture mad. From what occured at linz what huge imago made a psychopathic god. i and the public know what all schoolchildren learn those to whom evil is done do evil in return.
- One cannot review a bad book without showing off.
- No opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.
- Some books are undeservedly forgotten none are undeservedly remembered.
- Acts of injustice done, Between the setting and the rising sun, In history lie like bones, each one.
- Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.
- Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can all of them make me laugh.
- What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.
Best Quotes
- The art of motherhood involves much silent, unobtrusive self-denial, an hourly devotion which finds no detail too minute.
- From the time I was a kid, I always knew something was going to happen to me. Didn't know exactly what.
- I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's were the fun is.
- We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.
- The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.
- The longitivity and good health of a husband's life is directly proportional to the happiness of his wife.
- Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.
- Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not at hand.
- I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.
- In virtually every Western society in the 1960s there was a moral revolution, an abandonment of its entire traditional ethic of self-restraint.